Helping people with addiction: Claire Sterk, Public Health
Helping people with addiction: Claire Sterk, Public Health – Professor Claire Sterk of the Emory School of Public Health talks about doing research that helps people suffering from substance abuse, mental health issues and HIV. Related Links Rollins School of Public Health www.sph.emory.edu
SPAN bridges the challenge of drug abuse awareness in Dover, Sherborn
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The change that SPAN-DS hopes to implement is to prevent the negative consequences of substance abuse. DiSanto was inspired to join the group after “seeing firsthand the devastation that families who struggle with drug and alcohol addiction suffer.” …
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The Meaning of Addiction Has Changed — Addiction is Not a Characteristic of …
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A team of scientists led by Nora Volkow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse have used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to show that even when cocaine addicts merely watch videos of people using cocaine, dopamine levels increase in the part …
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Navigating Heroin Abuse on the Streets
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Some addicts abuse methadone just as they do heroin, and therefore avoid it. Others line up at the methadone clinic doors at 6 a.m., waiting for their plastic cup dispensary only to regurgitate their swallowed methadone some minutes later at a nearby …
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